Bug 140448 - [boot] BTX loader hangs after displaying BIOS drives
Summary: [boot] BTX loader hangs after displaying BIOS drives
Status: Closed Not A Bug
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: i386 (show other bugs)
Version: 7.2-RELEASE
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-i386 (Nobody)
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Reported: 2009-11-10 16:10 UTC by Robert Bauer
Modified: 2019-01-07 05:21 UTC (History)
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Description Robert Bauer 2009-11-10 16:10:00 UTC 
I am trying to boot from the 7.2-RELEASE-bootonly CD.

System is a Dell PowerEdge 1600SC, with dual CPU's and 2GB RAM, and a 3ware 9550sx (PCI-X) raid controller.  The system is configured to boot from a SCSI drive attached to the integrated LSI Logic scsi controller.  The 3ware raid card is used for additional storage.  With the 3ware raid card installed, attempting to boot from the install CD produces the following output:

CD Loader 1.2

Building the boot loader arugments
Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found
Reloacating the loader and the BTX
Starting the BTX loader

BTX loader 1.00  BTX version is 1.02
Consoles: internal video/keyboard
BIOS CD is cd0
BIOS drive A: is disk0

After this, the system seems to hang.  There is no further output.

If I remove the 3ware raid card, the CD appears to boot normally.

I have verified this behavior is also the same using the 8.0-RC2-bootonly CD.

Fix: 

Not known.  Found another user with a similar problem, but a slightly different 3ware raid controller.  (See http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc/2009-08/msg00034.html)  His solution was to use boot loader from 7.0 in place of the 7.2 loader.
How-To-Repeat: Reboot system
Comment 1 Robert Bauer 2009-11-12 13:19:19 UTC 
If I disable the integrated SCSI controller, the system boots of the 
CD.  I have not yet tried installing FreeBSD on this system, but the 
process so far seems to be working.

Robert Bauer
Comment 2 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-12-31 07:58:44 UTC 
For bugs matching the following criteria:

Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01

Reset to default assignee and clear in-progress tags.

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Comment 3 Warner Losh freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2019-01-07 05:21:46 UTC 
Bug report indicates this is due to a faulty SCSI controller, closing.